Miscellaneous Hacks - Registration form AJAX enhancements

What does it do?

• Checks for username validity as you type it in registration form
• Checks for email validity as you type it in registration form
• Checks for password validity as you type it in registration form
• Suggests good passwords
• Shows strength of your password as you type it in registration form

Points of interest:

• No template or code changes. All is done using VBulletin Product API.
• Only several custom phrase is used. All others are taken from VBulletin. So, product localization is VERY easy.
• All validity checks are implemented using VBulletin API

How to install?

• Unpack archive into forum root
• Install *.xml file via Admin Control Panel (Product management)

What is NOT done:

• No checks implemented for entering captchas as it may seriously lower forum anti-spam security

How to update to latest version?
Overwrite all files by new ones from latest zip and reimport product XML file via Admin Control Panel with "Allow Overwrite" option checked.

Version history:

1.1.7 (24-07-08)
Situation where password = login is now classified as error. New string added for this case (localizers, note).

1.1.6 (22-07-08)
Minified version of ajaxreg.js included in the pack. 1Kb savings :)

1.1.5 (01-07-08)
Fix for checking usernames, containing space character (only fractalizer_ajaxreg_ajax.php file is changed since 1.1.4)

1.1.4 (17-06-08)
Small fix to a bug with username checking on some forums.

1.1.3 (16-06-08)
A fix provided to prevent some browsers from refreshing page after clicking on Password Suggestor button

1.1.2 (16-06-08)
Another attempt to fix checking usernames containing non-latin chars. Should work this time ;)
Icons rearranged to prevent problems with custom styles

1.1.1 (11-06-08)
Template issue fixed (password suggestor is now correctly shown) (skariko)

1.1 (11-06-08)
New feature - password suggestor. New phrases were added for it also to product XML.
New images for password strength added to distro for easy customization.
Functionality of password strength calculation fixed (Quantnet.org, Arbit3r)
non-latin characters problem hopefully fixed (requires iconv PHP extension, autodetected). (ecihanuysal)
Border in IE is now correctly cleared (Jeordie015)
1.0.1 (10-06-08)
Text sanitizing added (AlexanderT).
Password strength images are now shown everywhere (HTML was broken) (TheInsaneManiac, uantnet.org, Lionel)
jQuery is now about 45% less in size (Milad)

[Yellow Slider]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Unfortunately, I still have no time to investigate the problem with national characters. The reason is simple: forums use various encodings to display pages, but JavaScript (and AJAX) use Unicode. Javascript has no tools for code page conversion so... That's a problem.

will it work if I change the encoding of the sytem to UTF-8?

[Tharos]

Thanks dude, it's a perfect hack

[anderow]

Great mod...thanks!!

[Barteken]

when I type in username "bart" it says the username is taken (which is correct)
if I type in the username "bart20" it also says the username is taken (which is incorrect)

is this a bug or did I do something wrong?

thanks in advance

[trilljester]

That doesn't happen on my site. I tried Jester (said it was taken), then tried Jester20 and it said it was available.

[Barteken]

Originally Posted by trilljester

That doesn't happen on my site. I tried Jester (said it was taken), then tried Jester20 and it said it was available.

hmm thats odd is there a setting in vbulletin that could cause this problem?

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

will it work if I change the encoding of the sytem to UTF-8?

Probably, but you cannot do that for English language in VBulletin as I know.

[se_p800]

I tired a previous version of this and it did not allow .co.uk e-mail addresses. Is this problem fixed? Thanks

[FractalizeR]

I think so.

[ParaWa]

Installed and thanks for providing this feature.